Yuan XianJun

Contact

E-mail:   yuanxianjun@njau.edu.cn

Fields of Postgraduate Admissions

Forage production

The isolation of functional lactic acid bacteria

Research Fields

Silage fermentaion 

The isolation of functional lactic acid bacteria

The hegienic quality of silages 

Teaching Courses

The microorganisims of silage

The utilisation technology of agricultural by-product for forage

Education Background 

Ph.D. Animal Nutrition and Feed ScienceNanjing Agricultural University, 2012

Work Experience

Associate Professor   Nanjing Agricultural University  2017to date

Lecturer             Nanjing Agricultural University  2013 to 2016

Honors and Awards

First Class for Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Tibet

Research Achievements/Selected Publications

1.       XianJun Yuan, Wen A, Wang J, Desta ST, Dong Z and Shao T*. Effects of four short-chain fatty acids or salts on fermentation characteristics and aerobic stability of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) silage. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2018.

2.       Xianjun Yuan, Aiyou Wen, ZhiHao Dong, Seare T. Desta, Tao Shao* Effects of formic acid and potassium diformate on the fermentation quality, chemical composition and aerobic stability of alfalfa silage. Grass and Forage Science, 2017.

3.       XianJun Yuan, AiYou Wen, Jian Wang, JunFeng Li, Seare T. Desta, D. J. Undersander , Tao Shao* Fermentation quality, in vitro digestibility and aerobic stability of total mixed ration silages prepared with whole-plant corn (Zea mays L.) and hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) straw. Animal Production Science, 2018, online .

4.       Xianjun Yuan, Aiyou Wen, Seare T. Desta, Tao Shao* Effects of 4 short-chain fatty acids or salts on dynamics of nitrogen transformations and intrinsic protease activity of alfalfa silage. Journal of the science of food and agriculture, 2017, 97(9): 2759-2766

5.       Xianjun Yuan, Aiyou Wen, Seare T. Desta, ZhiHao Dong, Tao Shao* Effects of sodium diacetate on the fermentation profile, chemical composition and aerobic stability of alfalfa silage. Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences，2017, 30:804-810.

6.       Desta ST, Yuan X, Li J and Shao T, Ensiling characteristics, structural and nonstructural carbohydrate composition and enzymatic digestibility of Napier grass ensiled with additives. Bioresource Technology, 2016, 221:447-454

7.       Xianjun Yuan, Wen, A., Wang, J., Guo, G., Desta, S. T. & Shao, T*, Effects of ethanol, molasses and Lactobacillus plantarum on the fermentation quality, in vitro digestibility and aerobic stability of total mixed ration silages in the Tibetan plateau of China. Animal Science Journal, 2016, 87, 681-689.

8.       Xianjun Yuan, Zhihao Dong, Seare T. Desta, Haoran Jia, Tao Shao*, Inclusion of wet hulless-barley distillers’grains in mixed silage enhances fermentation and in vitro degradability in Tibet. Grassland Science, 2016, 60: 206-213.

9.   XianJun Yuan, Gang Guo, AiYou Wen, Seare T. Desta, Jian Wang, Yong Wang, Tao Shao∗, The effect of different additives on the fermentation quality, in vitro digestibility and aerobic stability of a total mixed ration silage. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2015, 207, 41-50.

10.   Xianjun Yuan, Wang, J, Guo, G, Wen, A. Y, Desta, S. T. & Shao,T*, Effects of ethanol, molasses and Lactobacillus plantarum on fermentation characteristics and aerobic stability of total mixed ration silages. Grass and Forage Science, 2015,71, 328–338.

11.   Xian-Jun Yuan, Cheng qun Yu, Zhihua Li, Shimojo Masataka, Tao Shao*. Effect of inclusion of grasses and wet hulless-barley distillers’ grains on the fermentation and nutritive quality of oat straw- and straw-grass silages in Tibet. Animal Production Science, 2013, 53(5): 419-426 .

12.   Xian-Jun Yuan, Cheng qun Yu, Shimojo Masataka, Tao Shao*. Improvement of Fermentation and Nutritive Quality of Straw-grass Silage by Inclusion of Wet Hulless-barley Distillers' Grains in Tibet. Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2012, 25(2): 479-485.